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(No Model) W H. WINSLOW. MOUNTING TILE SECTIONS.

No. 586,257. Patented July 13,1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

\VILLIAM II. lVINSLOlV, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE LUXFER PRISM PATENTS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

MOUNTING TILE-SECTIONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 586,257, dated July 13, 1897.

Application filed March 24, 1897. Serial No. 628,996. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.- I do not here make any attempt to describe Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. lVINsLOW, minutely the manner in which these several a citizen of the United States, residing at (hiparts are made or the manner in which they cage, in the county of Cook andState of Illimay be most conveniently put together, as

5 nois, have invented certain new and useful any skilled mechanic will readily understand In'iprovements in Mounting Tile'Sections, of what is the best thing to be done under each which the following is a specification. particular set of circumstances as they arise.

My invention relates to mounting prism- The warps maybe set in the frame, being setiles. It is, as will be evident, applicable also cured in any desired manner at their ends,

to to the mounting of any sort of window-lights with the bead G projecting beyond the plane or tile-seetionsinto plates; butI have particuside of the prism-lights, and thus serving as larly intended it for application to the oba sort of shoulder to hold them in position.

jects of mounting prism-lights into prism- The ties are then placed in position between plates for windows. It is illustrated in the the prism-lights, their beads projecting on 15 accompanying drawings, wherein the prism side of the prism-lights and form- Figure 1 is a plan of a prism-plate coming a shoulder in the same manner. hen

posed of ten prism-lights. Fig. 2 is a crossthese several parts are firmly secured tosection through two of such lights, enlarged, gether, it is evident that all of the prismon the line 2 2. Fig. 3 is a cross-section in lights will be secured within the net so as to 20 the opposite direction on the line 3 Fig. form aprism-plate of the desired size. If the 4. is an enlarged detail of the crossing orjuncties are not used, then the. warps should be tion of the warps, and Fig. 5 is a detail of a notched, as indicated, and transverse warps modification. Fig. 6 is a detail of a 1nodilinotched should be employed, whereby the recation. The figures are not to be taken as sult indicated in Fig. 4 is secured. If the 2 5 being drawn to a scale or showingthe parts in strengthening-wires are employed, they may their proper proportions. I pass through the frame-pieces and be turned Like parts are indicated by the same letters over and secured at the outer edge, as indiin all the figures. cated.

A A are the members of the surrounding \Vhen the parts have all been put into poo :lra1ne;l3 B, the prism-lights having each a sition, or during the process of assembling series of prisms O O. them, the plate may be made water-tight or I) D are the warps or ribbon-like strips air-tight by any of the well known methods which extend from one side of the frame to as, for example, by the use of cement or the the opposite side and together with the ties electroglazing process. In thus mounting 5 IE E, which span the spaces between them, or -prism-lights,if the prisms extend, as indicated the warp D passing in the opposite direction and as they should, to the edge of the body constitute the net within the meshes of which of the light, the bead cannot be used on the the prism-lights are secured. The ties and warp which runs transversely to the prism, warps are substantially the same in eross-secfor, as shown in Fig. 3, the space between the 0' 0 tion, but where warps are used to the excluprisms will not permit; but this bead can be sion of ties, as illustrated in Fig. 4, the warps used on the transverse ties or warps, as indiare oppositely notched or halved, as at F F, eat-ed in Fig. 2, and hence this method of so as to come together in the manner indimounting is peculiarly applicable to prismcated. Each warp and each tie has an enlights. The head need not of course be con- 5 5 larged head or bead G along one edge, and it tinuous, and can be broken up into sections, they are formed as indicated in Fig. 5 and this and indeed it is only perhaps essential that the bead is composed of metal turned over so as bead-section should occur at the crossing or to be hollow then a strengthening-wire J may intersection of the warps or the warp and tie. be inserted. within this head and securely fas- I prefer of course to make the warps and mo tened at its extremities to the opposite frameties of thin metal, so that they are practically pieces. ribbons; but they might be made heavy and stiit enough to form when put together a sort of grid, rather than the lighter construction which I have described as a net. In the latter case, if the device were to be used where not exposed to wind and water, it might be unnecessary to in any manner further treat the product for the purpose of making it water or wind tight. Of course, as previously suggested, this method and these appliances for mounting may be employed in connection with any sort of tile or prism sections, and I use the term tile-sections broadly, so as to include not only prism-lights, as shown, and prism-tile, but also all other kinds of sections for which they are applicable.

I have shown the strips of the net as running at right angles to each other; but obviously this need not always be true, and will depend upon the form of the prism lights or sections. For example, in the case of prismlights of hexagon shape the warps would be zigzag in shape.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 5 cut, is-

1. A prism -plate comprising a series of prism-lights each having a receiving-sinfacc on one side and a prism-surface on the other, and a supporting net or frame composed of strips beaded on one edge, the beads on one set of strips being placed on the receiving side of the prism-lights at an angle to the prisms, and the beads on the other set of strips placed on the prism side of the sections parallel to such prisms.

2. A plate comprising a series of substantially ilat sections combined with a supporting net or frame consisting of strips beaded on one edge, the strips running in one direction having the beads on one side of the sections, and the strips running across the lirstmentioned strips having their heads on the opposite sides of said sections, and the whole secured together substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of March, 1897.

\VILLLUI ll. \YIX'SIKHY.

Witnesses:

Enwnnn G. lulu-1n, Tl may WA l'qipnn. 

